02943nam a2200421Ia 4500 ocn589158761 OCoLC 20200709055240.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 100331s2009 cau sb 000 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780804772860 (electronic bk.) 080477286X (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)589158761 309244 (N$T) eng ger BL221 .A87513 2010eb 202/.11 22 N$TA Assmann, Jan. Mosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus. English The price of monotheism [electronic resource] / Jan Assmann ; translated by Robert Savage. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010. 1 online resource (viii, 140 p.) "The Price of Monotheism was originally published in German under the title Die Mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus, c2003, Carl Hanser Verlag"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. The mosaic distinction and the problem of intolerance. How many religions stand behind the Old Testament? -- What is truth? -- Intolerance, violence, and exclusion -- Constructions of the other : religious satire -- Monotheism, a counter-religion to what? Monotheism versus polytheism -- Akhenaten and Moses : Egyptian and Biblical monotheism -- Monotheism as anti-cosmotheism -- Monotheism as political theology : ethics, justice, freedom -- Law and morality in the "pagan" world and the theologization of justice in monotheism -- The clash of memories : between idolatry and iconoclasm. The legend of the lepers and the Amarna trauma in Egypt -- Iconoclasm and iconolatry -- Prisca theologia and the abolition of the mosaic distinction -- The tightening of the mosaic distinction and the rise of paganology -- Sigmund Freud and progress in intellectuality. The Jewish and Greek options -- The trauma of monotheism : analytic hermeneutics and mnemohistory -- The ban on graven images as progress in intellectuality -- The psychohistorical consequences of monotheism. The "scriptural turn" : from cult to book -- Into the crypt -- The invention of the inner self -- Counterreligion and the concept of sin. Description based on print version record. Monotheism History. Paganism History. Religion and culture History. Electronic books. Print version: Assmann, Jan. Mosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus. English. Price of monotheism. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010 9780804761604 (DLC) 2009014352 (OCoLC)318100513 NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=309244 cpp5723 02 N$T 49726 49726